Surf Revolt

California’s housing crisis stems from restrictions on building, which can be removed Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. When It Is Illegal To Build Enough Homes, Scarcity And High Prices Are The Inevitable Result California’s housing crisis is among the most severe in the nation, with housing costs that have [&hellip

Rules requiring permission to work protect insiders and burden newcomers Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. When The Government Must Grant Permission To Earn A Living, Opportunity Becomes A Privilege Across many occupations, the freedom to work, to earn a living through honest labor, is constrained by occupational lic

Entrepreneurs face a thicket of rules that large corporations can absorb but they cannot Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Compliance Costs That A Corporation Shrugs Off Can Crush A Family Enterprise Small business is often celebrated as the backbone of the economy, the source of much employment, innovation, [&he

Voluntary trade benefits both parties, which is why people keep doing it Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. When Two People Trade By Choice, Both Walk Away Believing They Are Better Off At the heart of a market economy lies the act of voluntary exchange, two parties trading by choice, […]

New ways of providing services revealed how old rules protected old ways Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. When Technology Enabled New Services, Existing Rules Often Existed To Stop Them The emergence of the sharing economy, of new ways of providing services enabled by technology, revealed something important about r

Secure ownership gives people a reason to invest, conserve, and build for the future Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. People Take Care Of What Is Theirs And Neglect What Belongs To No One In Particular Property rights are often discussed in terms of fairness or economic efficiency, but they […]

The surfer’s relationship to a resource no one owns offers a lesson in freedom Reporting brought to you by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. A Wave Cannot Be Owned, And In That Unownability Lies A Kind Of Pure Liberty There is something about surfing that draws people toward a particular understanding of freedom. The […]

Scope 3 emissions reporting requirement meets the specific challenge of supply chain data that does not yet exist in required form Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Law and Its Challenge SACRAMENTO — California’s climate corporate disclosure law, which requires large companies doing business in the state to report their Scope 1,

CalPERS exceeds its assumed rate of return in excellent year while long-term structural deficit persists regardless Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Return and Its Context SACRAMENTO — The California Public Employees Retirement System reported an 8.2 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, which

State legislature modernises regulatory process by adding preliminary permit review stage before permit review stage Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Law and Its Mechanism SACRAMENTO — California Governor Newsom signed legislation this week establishing a preliminary environmental compliance review process for certain coastal d

The public beaches, clean water acts and coastal protections that made surfing possible came from government Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Honest History HUNTINGTON BEACH — The surf culture that California exports globally, that generates billions in economic activity, and whose values of freedom and environmental connect

Regulatory agency confirms both the approval and the science that the approval is working against simultaneously Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Approval and Its Context VENTURA — The California Coastal Commission approved a seawall permit for a coastal property in Ventura County this week while simultaneously adopting a polic

Zero-emission coastal development faces greater environmental scrutiny than asphalt expansions next door Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Paradox of Environmental Protection VENTURA COUNTY — A developer proposing a carbon-neutral surf resort and coastal education centre has been in California Environmental Quality Act review

Annual point-in-time count produces number that is smaller than last year’s number and larger than anyone’s target Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Count and Its Interpretation LOS ANGELES — The annual point-in-time homeless count in Los Angeles produced a number smaller than the previous year’s count, which Mayor Bass describe

Municipal legislature exercises its symbolic opposition function in area where symbolic opposition is already substantive law Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Motion and Its Substance SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a motion this week opposing the development of market-rate housing without communit

Industry discovers that regulation designed to benefit it conflicts with regulation it has been opposing Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Plan and Its Opposition BODEGA BAY — A fishing industry coalition filed a legal challenge against California’s kelp forest restoration plan, which proposes reducing urchin populations in d

Industry confirms that higher labour costs produce higher prices in economic system that functions as predicted Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Wage and Its Effects LOS ANGELES — California’s $25 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers, which took effect under AB 1228 and which has now been in operation […]

Employment classification law’s effects accumulate into legal record that reveals both the law’s achievements and its complexity Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Law and Its Legacy SACRAMENTO — California’s AB 5, the 2019 law that reclassified most independent contractors as employees and that Proposition 22 subsequently exempt

State audit finds 41 programmes across 12 agencies with no coordinated outcome measurement and homelessness up 22 percent Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Audit and Its Findings SACRAMENTO — The California State Auditor’s report on homelessness spending documents that California has allocated approximately $24 billion to hom

2026 gubernatorial field includes freedom-minded challenger whose platform diagnoses all of California’s problems correctly Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Candidate and the Platform SACRAMENTO — The 2026 California governor’s race includes at least one libertarian-adjacent candidate whose platform identifies California’s hous

Board shapers, instructors and coastal vendors demonstrate that markets work best without regulatory barriers Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Hidden Economy of the Coast ORANGE COUNTY — Estimates of California’s informal surf economy — board shapers, surf instructors, underwater photographers, wetsuit repair specialists, an

Malibu homeowner’s 847-page correspondence with regulators documents government overreach at its purest Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Commission and the Shower MALIBU — A Malibu homeowner’s application to add an outdoor shower to his beachfront property has been under Coastal Commission review for fourteen months, generat

High-speed rail authority identifies next construction milestone in programme whose endpoint remains mathematically uncertain Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Bridge and Its Context FRESNO — The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced groundbreaking on a new bridge structure in the Central Valley segment, which is the se

Authority’s sixth chief executive since 2008 brings fresh eyes to situation previous chief executives described as complicated Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Appointment and Its Context FRESNO — The California High-Speed Rail Authority appointed a new chief executive officer this week, the sixth person to hold the position si

Coastal municipality achieves record permitting timeline while describing record as evidence of careful process Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Timeline and Its Characterisation MALIBU — The average residential building permit in Malibu now takes 26 months from application to approval, up from 19 months in 2022 and 12 month

City council restricts market for visitors while grandfathering incumbents into protected status Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Restriction and Its Beneficiaries MALIBU — The Malibu City Council voted last month to ban new short-term rental permits in residential zones, grandfathering existing permitted rentals. Property o

Capital that built California’s tech dominance begins routing around California’s regulatory environment Satire from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Migration and Its Drivers SAN FRANCISCO — Venture capital firms based in Silicon Valley are funding an increasing proportion of startups headquartered in Austin, Miami, and other lower-cost,

Prior appropriation doctrine rewards historical diversion rather than current need or efficient use Reporting from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The 1913 System Meets the 2026 Climate FRESNO — California’s water rights system, built on the prior appropriation doctrine that awards water to whoever historically diverted it first regardless of